They tend to exclude coffee-breaks and other rest periods from their working-time sums.
And, he argues, the government's decision to adopt the European social chapter and the working-time directive create potentially big disincentives for entrepreneurs.
When the recession hit, workers had built up a large number of extra hours in their working-time accounts that could be wound down as work dried up.
But much of the decline appears to be structural, caused by new rules like the European working-time directive and a greater preference for shorter hours, including part-time jobs.
The European Union's working-time directive, first issued in 1993 and subject to fierce debate again this month in the European Parliament, insists that workers toil no more than 48 hours each week on average (see article).
It intends to introduce a minimum wage, it has signed up for the European Union's social chapter and it has introduced a working-time directive, creating statutory paid holidays for all as well as limiting the working week.
The Tories might entrench an exemption from the working-time directive, eg, in the National Health Service, as several other countries want one too but the European Parliament, which under Lisbon has equal legislative power with EU governments, may not agree.
But the number of employees working full-time has fallen 120, 000 and the number of self-employed people working full time has risen by 132, 000.
Part-time staff were working full-time and full -time staff overtime to cope with demand.
Those people who may once have been employed full-time making goods or offering a service may now not be injecting as much value into the economy if they are working part-time or working for themselves.
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He's back at work again, after a period of on-and-off retirement and working part-time.
As increasing numbers of mainstream parents -- often single and working full-time -- pull their offspring out of public schools, many find they lack the time or background to teach effectively.
In our survey, roughly half of all career-oriented moms say that working part-time before children are school-aged is desirable.
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The new jobs may be part-time positions, and they can also go to people who are already working part-time or who are self-employed.
Prior to the recession, this number totaled between 4-5 million workers, has increased to over 9 million at its highest point, and although some progress has been made, part-time employment remains elevated at nearly 8 million workers who would rather be working full-time.
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Similarly, it seems that women are more likely to work part-time in countries that protect that desire, as the gap between the women working part-time in the other countries and women doing the same here at home grew by two percentage points between 1990 and 2010.
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By the time she was 16 she was working full-time and no longer enrolled in school.
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Palmer said rumors abound of Yahoo and Google releasing more real-time processing technologies for working in real-time with big data, and Streambase plans some specific product announcements in a month or so.
Start by building up emergency savings equivalent to three to six months of your take-home pay (or if you're not working full-time, your expenses), says Kimberly Foss, a wealth adviser in Sacramento, Calif.
The 38-year-old began fishing in 1987 while he was still at school and said there were six boats fishing from Porth Colmon at that time, but it was now down to three, with only himself working full-time.
Our story is dramatically different: two young entrepreneurs working full-time out of a small home office.
Ms. SHAIN: I was working part-time at Doctor's Hospital and going to New York University.
She was also taking college courses while working part-time in a trendy Venice Beach bar.
About a quarter were working part-time and just under a quarter had left the labour force.
Britain, Germany, Japan, Switzerland and, above all, the Netherlands are keen on mothers working part-time.
Local reports said the sign was posted by a student working part-time in the library.
Working full-time on the minimum wage you can earn about 53% of the median UK wage.
Four Veritas engineers once spent six months working part-time to track a bug affecting a single customer.
An additional 187 people received supplementary benefits while working part-time, while another 47 were on training schemes.
He studied psychology and graduated in 2011, and is currently working part-time as an intern in Midtown.
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